Word: ustinov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed by Peter Ustinov-who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles-into a vividly affecting film...
Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles...
Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles...
...film's Billy Budd is Terence Stamp, 23, son of a Thames tugboat man. His Michelangelic good looks and country-boy smile make Billy's unaffected virtue believable where a better-known actor might have failed. As Captain Vere, Peter Ustinov shuns mawkishness in his role of naval Pilate; he reveals Vere's humanity subtly, and when Billy's wonderful and cruel farewell rings out, Vere stands destroyed by what he has had to do. Robert Ryan is the terrible Mister Claggart who presides so zealously at floggings: once, after counting out ten lashes while...
...Samuel Abbott has transformed himself into a most excellently bloated and insufferable Tolloller. He has managed, somehow, to blend the most absurd elements of Oscar Wilde, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov into one vast horror of inane snobbery and scented incompetence. Only Mr. Abbott's Tolloller could have successfully produced, as he did, the quintessential Gilbertian line: "We were boys together;--at least...